France’s government has unveiled its 2014 draft budget, in which spending for research and higher education remain virtually the same. The Higher Education and Research Ministry’s budget will increase 0.5% to €23.4 billion ($32.5 billion) and exceed €26 billion including support from other ministries. The €7.8 billion research budget represents a 1.0% cut to the […]
Both Chinese firms and multinational corporations (MNCs) in China are becoming more innovative, according to Booz & Co.’s “2013 China Innovation Survey.” The survey polled 264 executives at Chinese firms and MNCs in the industrial, automotive, chemicals and energy, computing and telecommunications, consumer goods, finance, health and life sciences, and professional services sectors. When asked […]
The UK government’s net expenditure (funding from the science budget) on the Research Councils’ R&D fell 2.3% in 2012 to £3,194 million ($5,070 million) in real terms. All figures below are net expenditures in real terms. Government net expenditures on R&D fell for all Councils except the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, for which […]
Researchers are increasingly studying “super responders,” those patients that respond well to a drug that does not work in most people. Academic centers, such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, are pursuing such studies in order to find genetic mutations that can be linked to a drug that […]
It has long been held that each person has one genome, meaning each of their cells share the same basic genetic material. Following decades of rare cases that disputed this, the tenet is now being upended by the discovery of a greater number of individuals with multiple genomes. Called chimerism, the condition is being discovered […]
The NIH has released its interim report on the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (see IBO 4/15/13). Prepared by an Advisory Committee to the Director working group, the report is based on consultations with the scientific community and public workshops. It identified six themes: appropriate experimental systems and models; cross boundaries in […]
Despite concerns over the US debt ceiling and a potential government shutdown, equity markets advanced in September due to the Federal Reserve’s decision to continue its bond purchase program, as well as improving economic data, including higher personal income and spending. However, consumer sentiment shifted more negatively in September as a result of discouraging prospects […]
Washington, DC 8/20/13; San Diego, CA 9/23/13—Sequenom has announced it is reviewing potential strategic alternatives for its Genetic Analysis business. In addition, last month, the company announced in an SEC filing a cost reduction effort that includes the termination of approximately 75 employees. The company expects to record $10 million in compensation-related expenses in future […]
Engham, UK 9/30/13; Amesbury, UK 9/30/13; Malvern, UK 9/30/13—Spectris’s Malvern Instruments business, which provides instrumentation for materials and biophysical characterization, has acquired NanoSight for £15 million ($24 million = £0.62 = $1) net of debt and cash acquired. NanoSight’s Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis technology enables the simultaneous multi-parameter analysis and characterization of different types of nanoscale […]
Menlo Park, CA 9/25/13; Washington DC 9/25/13—Sequencer maker Pacific Biosciences has announced an agreement with Roche Diagnostics to develop and manufacture diagnostic products, including sequencing systems and consumables. The products will be sold exclusively to Roche, which will distribute them in the human IVD field. Pacific Biosciences retains rights for all other fields. “We are […]
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